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Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi briefing State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday (2/1/18)
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

EXCLUSIVE: Buhari terminates $195 million ‘Israeli’ security contract promoted by Amaechi

The deal, midwived by transport minister, is ending over allegations of fraud.

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Samuel Ogundipe ∣ Comments: 0
Inside the unkempt boys' dormitory at St. Mary's Science College, Ediene Abak, Akwa Ibom, (Cletus Ukpong)
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

INVESTIGATION: Inside The Akwa Ibom Top Science College Where Students Are Raised In Squalour, “Like Animals”

Alumni say with its present state of decay, they can’t recommend what used to be one of the most coveted schools in Akwa Ibom to any prospective student or parent.

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Cletus Ukpong ∣ Comments: 0
President Muhammadu Buhari
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

EXCLUSIVE: Nigeria in big trouble as N2.7 trillion fine threatens collapse of economy

Experts say the development might wreck the Nigerian economy and plunge country into more devastating recession.

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Bassey Udo ∣ Comments: 0
Students inside unsafe structure at Ntiat and Mbak 1 Comprehensive Sec Sch, Itu
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

INVESTIGATION: Learning In Tears: Inside the massive decay in public schools in oil-rich Akwa Ibom

A moving story of how corruption, planlessness and official neglect led to the collapse of public education in one of Nigeria’s richest states.

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Cletus Ukpong ∣ May 23, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

#WestAfricaLeaks: Dantata’s MRS, Chevron billion dollar deal raises tax avoidance concern

The end result of the transaction was a Nigerian entity acquiring another Nigerian company via two shell companies in-between.

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Premium Times ∣ May 22, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
K38 Catamaran assault crafts . Illustrations by Michael Anderson
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

INVESTIGATION: Nigeria’s elusive K38 boats and the stolen billions

This is another excursion into Nigeria’s dirty, corrupt world of security contracting.

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Ogala Emmanuel ∣ May 21, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Amit Sade is believed to be one of the suspects arrested by the Israeli police over bribing Nigerian officials.
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

INVESTIGATION: Inside a Multi-Million Dollar ‘Defence Contract Fraud’: Suspects arrested in Israel as Nigeria fails to act

Experts believe the Shaldag contract is one of the deals that paved the way for a regime of kleptocracy in the Nigerian defence sector.

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Ogala Emmanuel ∣ May 16, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Nigerian military chiefs, politicians, and contractors are believed to have stolen more than N3.1 trillion through arms procurement contracts.
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports, Politics

INVESTIGATION: When Generals Turn Bandits: Inside the massive corruption in Nigeria’s security contracting

Nigerian military chiefs, politicians, and contractors are believed to have stolen more than N3.1 trillion through arms security contracts.

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Ogala Emmanuel ∣ May 15, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
VFS Global visa centre
Business Specials, Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

SPECIAL REPORT: How visa processing firm, VFS Global, ‘extorts’, ‘mistreats’ Nigerians

Complaints, allegations of exorbitant service charges trailing visa processing company.

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Ebuka Onyeji ∣ May 14, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
The drainage at Isale Afon is one of the abandoned, poorly executed projects that litter Oyo
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

INVESTIGATION: Lawmakers, contractors, supervising agencies culpable as abandoned, poorly executed projects litter Oyo (2)

Residents of various Oyo State communities continue to suffer despite release of millions for essential projects.

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Kemi Busari ∣ May 12, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Murky water at one of the dam compartments-001
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

INVESTIGATION: Oyo residents suffer as multi-million naira projects abandoned, poorly executed (1)

Hundreds of millions of naira have been spent on projects largely abandoned in various communities in Oyo State.

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Kemi Busari ∣ May 8, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
The new borehole erected by CDA
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

SPECIAL REPORT: Oily Water: How residents of Lagos community battle polluted environment

A PREMIUM TIMES reporter investigates the hazards faced by a Lagos community after a fuel leakage.

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Oladeinde Olawoyin ∣ May 3, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Saraki Adeosun Dogara
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

EXCLUSIVE: How N’Assembly leaders spent remaining N3.4billion of N10billion Adeosun largesse

A larger chunk of the illegal cash was spent on exotic cars.

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Abdulaziz Abdulaziz ∣ April 27, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Buhari thinking
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports, Top News

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Buhari’s 2019 campaign strategy and the Keyamo connection

A defining meeting with aides sheds light on the president’s strategy for curtailing opposition challenge in 2019.

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Sani Tukur ∣ April 26, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Saraki Adeosun Dogara
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

EXCLUSIVE: N10billion Adeosun Largesse: Saraki’s N’Assembly paid N5.6billion to 44 unqualified firms — FULL LIST

Some of the companies are not even registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission.

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Kemi Busari ∣ April 23, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker, Yakubu Dogara. [Photo credit: Newmail-ng.com]
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EXCLUSIVE: How Saraki’s National Assembly spent N6.6billion Adeosun largesse on exotic cars

Funds for the vehicles were sourced from the N10billion the finance minister gave lawmakers

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Abdulaziz Abdulaziz ∣ April 21, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Saraki Adeosun Dogara
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EXCLUSIVE: Minister Adeosun, Saraki, Dogara, Accountant General in N10 billion fraud scandal

Activists want anti-corruption agencies to call in Adesosun, Saraki and others for probe.

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Musikilu Mojeed ∣ April 20, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Thugs stealing the mace from the Senate
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

EXCLUSIVE: Security agencies complicit in theft of Senate mace

A suspended senator who shouldn’t have access to the Senate chamber led the thieves

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Kemi Busari ∣ April 19, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Doctors attending to patients used to illustrate the story
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports, News Reports

Crisis looms in Nigeria hospitals as health workers announce indefinite strike

The JOHESU strike commences on Tuesday night.

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Ebuka Onyeji ∣ April 16, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Foster Ogola, Senator involved in certificate scandal
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INVESTIGATION: Nigerian Senator caught in certificate scandal

Mr Ogola takes his spot on the infamous list of prominent Nigerians indicted in certificate scandals.

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Premium Times ∣ April 11, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports, Investigations

SPECIAL REPORT: Women in Abuja communities abandon clinics, rely on traditional birth attendants for delivery

Many poor Nigerian women say they find care at formal health institutions cumbersome and the cost exorbitant

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Nike Adebowale ∣ April 8, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Investigation/Special Reports, Investigations, Top News

INVESTIGATION: Nigeria’s health centres still dysfunctional a year after govt began reconstruction

While the World Bank, EU and UK governments are rebuilding Nigeria’s health centres, our government is taking the back seat in quantity and quality.

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Ebuka Onyeji ∣ April 7, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
National Assembly
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports, Top News

Eight Nigerian lawmakers in $96,000 foreign training scandal

The lawmakers were to be sponsored by an agency they have oversight on.

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Kemi Busari ∣ April 5, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
Striking doctors in Nigeria used to illustrate the story
Features, Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

SPECIAL REPORT: Anxiety as Nigerian doctors leave country in droves

“Nigeria should brace itself to losing more of its doctors,” an emigrant doctor says.

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Ayodamola Owoseye ∣ April 3, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0
A heap of waste in Festac
Headline Stories, Investigation/Special Reports

INVESTIGATION: How Lagos govt sidelined local operators for foreign company with no experience in waste collection

“One of the best known private sector companies in waste management is Visionscape,” Governor Ambode claimed.

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Nicholas Ibekwe ∣ April 2, 2018 ∣ Comments: 0